[a number of years ago I posted a tag that addressed this location issue; when the tag was acquired from a distant location and I suggested it wasn’t a valid pick-up, I was ignored… just make the rules that suit you…but at least, be consistent and in agreement… @eric, @paulheckbert seem to know it all..even if not in agreement. לחיים.]

In the case you raised you were trying to get people to take a picture of the tag from a certain location, which wasn’t anywhere near the closest they could get to the actual tag. In Paul’s case, he wanted you to get reasonably close to the tag. (Paul also objected to a tag pickup I made, but in that case I won because I really was about as close as I could get to the tag, barring scrambling down the hill or approaching it from a completely different set of streets.)
You were trying to add a new constraint on the tag pickup, as I see it — take it from a particular location (you also tried, I think, to enforce that the tag pickup had to be made as a particular time). Paul is merely enforcing the “as best as possible” constraint in Rule #1.

This game is supposed to be about cycling and exploring, not about spending hours at home solving too-difficult puzzles. If tags are going unsolved for a week even in nice weather, that’s a sign that they’re too hard.

Gotta agree. I have no idea where to start. My first hunch was there would be a football field between 34th and 35th streets with a children’s playground. Such a thing does not exist.

The clues given are more confusing than helpful. I’m already a half hour into this, and nothing.

For that matter, I have yet to properly locate the angle iron in the river.

In the past, if I could not pick up a tag, I could usually figure out where it was and contribute an additional bit of info so someone else could. But I don’t even know what side of what rivers to start looking, and there are dozens of nursery schools and elementary playgrounds inside the box.

Some of The Iguana’s hints are more reasonable difficulty (e.g. “large raptor and colorful robins and an elderly gentleman’s farm. So get going”) but the West End Bridge homeless camp and the Auburn peach bowl tags were too obscure, ground the game to a halt for a week or more. There’s less shame in posting an easy tag than posting a too-hard one.

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<p dir=”ltr”>it seems that a year or two ago, changes were made to the web system that resulted in much longer response times (like 5 or 10 seconds instead of 1 second) and that drove away most of the users. I think that, by itself, is the main cause of the decline of this messageboard [which includes tagorama…</p>

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<p dir=”ltr”>Hmmm:</p>

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<p dir=”ltr”>”that, by itself, is the main cause of the decline of this messageboard”</p>

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<p dir=”ltr”>There’s less shame in being transparent and consistent than not.</p>

I’ve been riding around all day, as I have day to ride (@eric you know it)…all along the Black Detour; those people up there have a real race issue.

And the hints…oy…who can figure?…certainly not my lizard brain…Big Bird has an Uncle Slim, but he doesn’t work at the Giant Eagle in any capacity; even the corporate office.😜

But my Dad, The Big Kahuna Iguana, OBM, may he rest in peace, gave much business to the A. G. Mauro Company. So, while up along the “detour” I decided to take a rest there. ..and, oh, my dear friends, such a view…let me share:

Obviously? Of the five people that actively play/whine the game, I thought they were injured, on vacation, bike in the shop, catching up on their sleep, on a business trip, in counseling, incarcerated, lost phone/no internet access, and/or etc.